The gospel creates the church, which spreads the gospel, which creates more churches, which in turn spread the gospel further ad infinitum. — John Stott Copy Share Image
The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. — John Stott Copy Share Image
Christianity is in its very essence a resurrection religion. The concept of resurrection lies at its heart. If you remove it, Christianity… — John Stott Copy Share Image
We preachers cannot expect to communicate verbally from the pulpit if we visually out of it contradict ourselves. — John Stott Copy Share Image
Mission arises from the heart of God Himself and is communicated from His heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and… — John Stott Copy Share Image
He chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it. — John Stott Copy Share Image
“It was by his death that he wished above all else to be remembered. There is then, it is safe to say,… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“P. T. Forsyth, the English Congregationalist, wrote in The Cruciality of the Cross (1909): Christ is to us just what his cross… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The law requires works of human achievement; the gospel requires faith in Christ's achievement. The law makes demands and bids us obey;… — John Stott Copy Share Image
So, because in no other person but Jesus of Nazareth did God first become human (in his birth), then bear our sins… — John Stott Copy Share Image
We cannot be content with an evangelism which does not lead to the drawing of converts into the church, nor with a… — John Stott Copy Share Image
These then are the marks of the ideal Church - love, suffering, holiness, sound doctrine, genuineness, evangelism and humility. They are what… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the… — John Stott Copy Share Image
An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating… — John Stott Copy Share
Mission arises from the heart of God Himself and is communicated from His heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of the global… — John Stott Copy Share
[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets… — John Stott Copy Share
All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousn ess, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at… — John Stott Copy Share
So there is such a thing as perfect hatred, just as there is such a thing as righteous anger. But it is a hatred… — John Stott Copy Share
“Unless some people are commissioned for the task, there will be no gospel preachers; unless the gospel is preached, sinners will not hear Christ’s… — John Stott Copy Share
“many former sins have become crimes’, so that responsibility for dealing with them has passed from church to state, from priest to policeman (p.50),… — John Stott Copy Share
When we look at the cross we see the justice, love, wisdom and power of God. It is not easy to decide which is… — John Stott Copy Share
If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks… — John Stott Copy Share
There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God. — John Stott Copy Share
Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents. — John Stott Copy Share
“A guilty conscience is a great blessing, but only if it drives us to come home.” — John Stott Copy Share
The concept of substitution lies at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God,… — John Stott Copy Share
